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Jackson neighbors take aim at plan to build all-girls Orthodox Jewish high school

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A group of neighbors in Jackson have hired a lawyer to fight a plan to build an all-girls Orthodox Jewish high school in a residential neighborhood. If approved, the school would be build on Cross Street.
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JACKSON — Citing concerns over traffic and water pollution, a group of Jackson residents have banded together to fight the construction of an all-girls Orthodox Jewish high school in their neighborhood.

The Asbury Park Press reports that a coalition of neighbors have formed the Jackson Citizens Defense Fund and hired a lawyer to fight the plan.

Barbara Orsini, a lead opponent of the plan who lives behind the property on Cross Street where the proposed school will be built, told the newspaper that the fund has raised $3,500 so far.

The group hired Red Bank attorney Ron Gasiorowski to represent them at the next zoning board meeting, according to the Asbury Park Press.